
Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine
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The Importance of Processing in Modern Food
I see the current availability of inexpensive first rate food to be one of the great triumphs of human creativity and ingenuity not a tragedy. The ability for people around the world to eat well in unimaginable ways that they could have done 50 and 100 years ago is just something to be wildly celebrated. I'm hoping that you know a new era of debate will emerge because there are questions to be asked about still about what are now that we have abundance all these ways of thinking about food were really designed to deal with scarcity and we do have abundance.
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